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Showing posts with label Martin Majoor. Show all posts

11.27.2011

lapikon | Exhibition & Publication

















Opening of the Ala ma font(a) final exhibition of the workshop result  – Martin Majoor, Anne Bessemans, Filip Blazek, Eben Sorkin (on skype), Marian Misiak and the group of workshop’s participants will take place on 11th of January 2012 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice during III rd International Design Conference Agrafa. 
There will be a publication lapikon accompaining the exhibition containing texts written by teachers and 15 examples of students typefaces created during the workshop.

11.26.2011

Questa

Martin Majoors Questa at the exhibition in Walker Art Center

A book by Martin Majoor & Sébastien Morlighem















Martin Majoor & Sébastien Morlighem
José Mendoza y Almeida

03/2010

édition bilingue français-anglais
bilingual French-English publication
Traduit de l’anglais par Étienne DobenesqueTranslated from the French by Jan Middendorp
Introduction de Jan Middendorp
176 pages
170 x 245 mm
ISBN 978-2-35654-008-9 

11.17.2011

Last Meeting 25–27.11.2011

Dear Participants,
We are presenting Anne's requirements for the participants last meeting.
Please prepare:
– introduction to your idea of the project
– a method, if possible
– Result: the way how you translated ideas into a design
– a discussion (can be several ways of possible designs)
– a conclusion (final result). 
Anne Bessemans will review yours materials, assume and help you in preparation of the publications of results came from your researches.
The last meeting is payed for gathering materials to the book and exhibition redact them consistently and elegant.
We wish your pictures and text present good academic level so please prepare your works and yourself to this final review.

10.03.2011

Workshop 30.09–2.10

Since we have two more meetings left till the end of the workshop Ala ma fonta our teachers ask every participant to design characters listed below:

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
ą ę ł
A H K O S
. , ! ?

We are pleased to inform, that we are going to publish a book including the articles about type design written by our teachers: Ann, Eben, Filip, Martin and Marian and typefaces designed by us. 

Whats more, during the 3rd International Design Conference Research in Graphic Design, Graphic Design in Research http://conference.aspkat.edu.pl/2011/  as an exhibition. Opening will take place on 9th January 2012 in AFA in Katowice main hall, Koszarowa 19. 

Some photos from the last workshops below – enjoy:)





















Martin Majoor exhibition




















We would like to congratulate our teacher Martin Majoor participating in the exhibition:
Graphic Design: Now in Production which will take place in:

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (October 22, 2011–January 22, 2012)
http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=6189&hp=link&poster=Exhibitions
and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution Summer 2012
http://cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/now-in-production


6.13.2011

Next meetings

30th September – 2nd October
Martin Majoor – Marian Misiak

Yadzia Williams – the leader of the program in publication and illustration for children,
Glyndwr University, Wales, the co-author of the "Encyclopedia of the publication and illustration for children" will visit us during the workshop.
Yadzia Williams and Ania Machwic will give an presentation in good and bad samples of using typography in children's publication.
Durring the days of workshop they will talk individually, about your concepts of publication for children
and using text connected with illustration in children's publication.

They will introduce the project of illustrating bilingual proverbs. They realize this project as an international collaboration in publication design. The first results of concepts will be presented as a part
of international exhibition of Proverbs accompanied The International conference in Illustration,
in Glyndwr University, Wrexham on 3rd November 2011.

You are invited to participate, presenting chosen samples of your typefaces working with bilingual text of the given proverbs.


14th – 16th October
Marian Misiak – Filip Blazek

25th–27th November
Marian Misiak – Martin Majoor


Ann Bessemans is coming for final review.
Ann will advice you how to present the researches as a part of the presentation of your typefaces exhibition.



9th January 2012
3rd International conference in design, AGRAFA, Katowice 2012
Research in graphic design. Graphic design in research.

Opening of the final exhibition of the works came from workshop
and seminar in typography and publication for children's design research.

6.07.2011

Martin Majoor works' exhibition in Toruń

25 maja 2011, w ramach Międzynarodowego Festiwalu Plakatu i Typografii PLASTER, otwarto wystawę prac Martina Majoora. Ekspozycję można oglądać na tarasie, na szczycie budynku CSW w Toruniu do 24 lipca 2011. Jest to pierwsza tak obszerna prezentacja projektów tego wybitnego typografa, nie tylko w Polsce, ale w całym Układzie Słonecznym.
Wszystkich podróżujących miłośników typografii i projektowania graficznego stanowczo namawiamy do obserwacji procesu tworzenia kroju pisma i jego odmian. Typografia wokół i niebo gwieździste nad Wami!

We have a great pleasure to inform that Martin Majoor works' exhibition has been opened on 25th May as a part of International Poster and Typography Festival PLASTER in Torun. The exhibition is available until 24th July and we strongly recommend this, as it is the first individual retrospective of one of the most important typographers of our days.
All of You, traveling typography lovers, should pay attention and observe presented process of a typeface creation.






5.21.2011

Workshop 3 | 13–15 May

Workshop with Martin Majoor and Filip Blažek will start on Friday at 12:00.
Students will continue working on their projects and they will start to use FontLab.

Workshop with Martin Majoor and Filip Blažek